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μέσος
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Ancient Greek
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Alternative forms
Etymology
From Proto-Hellenic *métsos, from Proto-Indo-European *médʰyos (“between”). Cognate with Latin medius, Sanskrit मध्य (madhya), Avestan 𐬨𐬀𐬌𐬜𐬌𐬌𐬁𐬥𐬀 (maiδiiāna), Old Armenian մէջ (mēǰ), etc.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /mé.sos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈme.sos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈme.sos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈme.sos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈme.sos/
Adjective
μέσος • (mésos) m (feminine μέση, neuter μέσον); first/second declension
Inflection
Derived terms
- μεσάδιος (mesádios)
- μεσηγύ (mesēgú)
- μεσοποτάμιος (mesopotámios)
Related terms
- μέσως (mésōs)
Descendants
References
- “μέσος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “μέσος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “μέσος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- μέσος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- μέσος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- “μέσος”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- G3319 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- average idem, page 55.
- central idem, page 122.
- intermediate idem, page 451.
- middle idem, page 527.
- thick idem, page 865.
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Greek
Etymology
From Ancient Greek μέσος (mésos), from Proto-Hellenic *métsos, Proto-Indo-European *médʰyos (“between”).
Adjective
μέσος • (mésos) m (feminine μέση, neuter μέσο)
Declension
Derivations:
Comparative: πιο + positive forms (e.g. πιο μέσος, etc.)
Relative superlative: definite article + πιο + positive forms (e.g. ο πιο μέσος, etc.)
Related terms
- μέση f (mési, “middle, waist”)
- μέσο n (méso, “middle, average”)
- Μέσος χρόνος Γκρίνουιτς m (Mésos chrónos Gkrínouits, “Greenwich Mean Time”)
- μισός (misós, “half”)
Noun
μέσος • (mésos) m (plural μέσοι)
- (mathematics) average, mean
- Coordinate term: διάμεσος (diámesos)
- αριθμητικός μέσος ― arithmitikós mésos ― arithmetic mean
- (soccer) midfielder
- middle finger
- middle toe
Declension
Synonyms
- (middle finger): μεσαίο δάχτυλο n (mesaío dáchtylo)
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